Imagination is off the hook

Imagination is off the hook. Canyon Bridge, the China-backed private equity company which owns Imagination, has given assurances to the government that it will remain domiciled in the UK and that it will consult over any board changes. When Canyon Bridge bought Imagination in 2017 it assured the UK government that it would remain subject ...

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Harwin offers quick-printing anti-covid-19 face shield design

Harwin, the Hampshire-based connector company, has modified an existing 3d printable anti-covid-19 face shield design to make it print quicker, and has put the print file on its website here for others to use. The company is using its printers and staff to make and assemble these shields for health workers – the photo shows a doctor at ...

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AI reveals likely hydride superconductors

Russian scientist have a found a natural link between an element’s position in the periodic table and its potential to form a high-temperature hydride superconductors, and created a neural network to predict their performance. Hydrides are thought to offer the potential for ‘high-pressure’ superconductors, as opposed to the usual ‘low-temperature’ superconductors – although they still require ...

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Flat logic market expected with 7-13% growth for foundry.

The non-memory chip market will be flat this year while the foundry industry will grow 7-13%, reckons TSMC. TSMC expects to  outperform both the semiconductor and the foundry industry with growth of 14-19% this year. Smartphone units are expected to be down 7-9% this year and 5G phones will take 15% of the market. “We ...

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Semi capex to hold steady at -3%

Although all the risk to the current -3% semiconductor industry capital spending forecast for this year is to the downside, it is assumed that most spending will proceed as planned since the vast majority of the outlays are directed at long term goals of process technology advancements and/or additions to wafer start capacity. However, if ...

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TSMC Q1 soars 45%

TSMC had  Q1 revenue of $10.3 billion for a net profit of $3.85 billion. Y-o-y, Q1 revenue increased 45% while net income and diluted EPS both increased 90.6%. Compared to Q4 2019, Q1 results represented a 2.1% decrease in revenue and a 0.8% increase in net income. Gross margin for the quarter was 51.8%, operating margin ...

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2020 chip market to be 0.9% down, says Gartner

2019 semiconductor  revenue totaled $419.1 billion, down 12% from 2018, according Gartner, but 2020 revenue is expected to hold steady at 0.9% decline. “Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7% 2019. The memory market accounted for 26.1% of semiconductor sales in 2019 and was the worst-performing device segment,” says ...

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Bittware box accelerates the edge

Bittware’s TeraBox 200DE edge server enables FPGA acceleration in edge applications. The 200DE is a small footprint, 2U short-depth server based on the new DELL PowerEdge XE2420. It can be populated with a range ofBittWare accelerator products featuring the latest FPGAs from Achronix, Intel and Xilinx to support the increasingly complex demands of highly specialized ...

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Marvell integrates Fibre Channel and Ethernet into vSphere 7.0

Marvell says that its QLogic Fibre Channel and FastLinQ Ethernet adapter solutions enable NVMeover Fabrics (NVMe-oF) technology in VMware vSphere 7.0. The integration of Marvell’s Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters into vSphere 7.0 allows low-latency, high-performance NVMe flash storage to be effectively shared, pooled and managed across a fabric resulting in cost-efficient enterprise and hybrid ...

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